Daniel J Isom

It's the end of the year and time for an update on how well I did on my two (actually 6) goals. Goal #1: Improve Overall Health I think I did everything I could to try and not get this one done in the second half of the year. Well, I did try and was successful with two out of the three, but the first one was really my main goal and I couldn't stay focused on making it happen. Get Below 25% Body Fat From our trip in July through Christmas, exercise was sporadic at best as were my eating habits. I got back on the wagon at the end of December and have made a very dedicated effort with calorie tracking while fitting in some exercise and I was able to get down to 26.9% for the year. Obviously I didn't get to my goal, but having pizza making as my other main goal didn't do me any favors. For next year, I'm focusing on this single year long goal. Average Sleep Score Above 85 I know what I need to do to get a consistent sleep score above 85 for a given month. The question i...

I'm so tired. Can't catch up. Too much to do. Enough time to do it. But it's exhausting. Wake up. Start the day. Go to work. Come home. Make sure everyone else gets what they need. Be up until my eyes can no longer stay open. Because I feel like sleep is a waste. Could do more. Should do more. Why am I not doing more? Part of me feels unfulfilled. Don't take enough for myself. Put everyone else ahead of me. Isn't that what I'm supposed to do? What I agreed to do? I'm so tired. I'm drowning. I need help. Help me.

To say I hate sleeping would be taking it a bit too far but if I never had to sleep again, I would do whatever it took to do so. I don't hate sleeping because I'm a poor sleeper or something. I imagine not being able to stay sound asleep each night has to be similar to the worst kinds of torture. When I fall asleep, ninety nine times out of a hundred, I am out cold and virtually nothing isn't going to wake me up. For those of you who live in Syracuse and remember the Labor Day storm of 1998, I slept right through it. I've slept through a few hurricanes since moving to Delaware too. Aside from crying children, even that doesn't do the trick every time, I can sleep through anything. But my ability to sleep like a rock isn't the point of this post. Sleep is overrated. Sleep is a waste of time. Sleep is a bane on society. I understand that we have to sleep because it's needed for our overall health. It allows our body to rejuvenate itself and restore what...